England, Northamptonshire, Sulgrave Manor
1588
Pot metal and whihte glass with silver stain
A: 48.6 x 31.9 (19 1/8 x 12 9/16); B: 47.2 x 34.0 (18 1/8 x 13 3/8)
Each panel has some mending leads
Provenance: Lawrence Washington, A builder of Sulgrave Manor; Colonel the Hon. H. Hely-Hutchinson of Weston Manor and Sulgrave Manor; Sacherell Sitwell, Weston Hall; purchased 31 May 1957, Sotheby’s, London
Bibliography: Kennett Love, “Two Washington Ancestral Panels are Sold,” New York Times 106 (1 June 1957), sec. l, l and 4; “Washington’s Coat of Arms Coming to America,” Washington Post (23 June 1957), sec. 1, 1; Richard M. Ketchum, The World of George Washington (New York, 1974), 16-17.
Collection: Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, New York)
Object/Accession: 57.2. 10A and B
A. Arms: Argent, two bars gules, in chief three mullets gules (Washington) impaling azure, a chevron between three covered cups or (Butler); B. Arms: Argent, two bars gules, in chief three mullets and in fess-point a * crescent gules (Washington) impaling sable, three fish hauriant in fess argent, a chief or (Kitson)
Inscriptions: A. WASHINGTON / AND BUTLER; B. WASHINGTON / AND KITSON
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